Protip: destroy your ‘smart’ TV.
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drahardja@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Protip: Do not connect your TV to the Internet.
bigFab@lemmy.world 6 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You go ahead and destroy something that cost you hundreds of dollars. Be it a TV or cans of Bud Light, I’m not going to destroy something I already got out of some need for a moral victory.
I hate ‘smart’ TVs. I wish they didn’t exist. But telling someone to destroy the one they already had- meaning that if they want to watch TV, they’ll just have to buy another- doesn’t really make much sense to me.
bigFab@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That sounds actually reasonable, but I’m not taking any advice from a flying squid.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Or, if you must (cringe), use anonymous credentials, have a router level VPN, and maybe even run pihole. But much better to just hook up a PC to your TV and run all of your apps off of that.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What? Am i supposed to watch tv? Hell nah
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Just get a cheap PS4 or Xbox and watch all your stuff on there. We have an LG “Smart TV” that just doesn’t need to be connected to the internet because our PS5 (formerly PS4) is fast and snappy, and has all the apps we could want to stream off. Plus, both have a Bluray player installed right off the bat, so we can even watch those if we’re up for it.
Don’t bother with sluggish performance on your Smart TV, it’s just not worth it.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What’s the practical difference between using a console and a smart TV?
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The UI is better and not as slow as on smart TVs from what I’ve heard. Plus you can play games on the console and watch DVDs and Blurays if that’s your thing. Apart from that, not much.
Katana314@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Consoles tend to have higher power draw than a lot of simple devices. Depends on how much you care about environmental power savings or power bills.
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Who said that? There are lots of streaming devices you can connect to your display, from game consoles to streaming boxes like Apple TV or if you really want to tinker a PC connected to the TV.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Why this escapes so many people on Lemmy is beyond me
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I ended up giving up and just putting a Linux PC attached to my TV as a media center. I host plex on it.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
This is the way (Jellyfin here)
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I’m new to all this. Got any recommendations how to learn about Jellyfin?
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
while often outdated, there are youtube tutorials. you could buy a cheap thinkcentre or set up a virtual machine to try it out.
personally, i run truenas scale with jellyfin as an “app” on my old PC.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
So here’s how I’m running things: At the top level it’s a Raspberry pi 5 running raspbian, then everything else (jellyfin, prowlarr, radarr, sonarr, Usenet download software, etc) is a docker container. If that sounds like how you want to do it feel free to message me and I can try to get you on your feet
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Honestly you can just run the app on your computer and tv connected devices. You don’t have to get fancy. I had trouble getting it up recognize and remember me library server address at first, but somehow I got it to work. I don’t like the UI though, and just use PLEX instead.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Of use jellyfin, but I have too many friends with only consoles that rely on my server. Sigh
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t see how this is giving up though. Been doing this to close to two decades in one form of another and I wouldn’t consider any other way. Except kodi instead of plexus here.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean, steam made it work with games, you telling me that 6-7 of these giant media companies can’t get it to work for video? The giving up part is that you have to embrace piracy (again?) to get to acceptable levels of service per dollar
nevetsg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I still watch TV through a Laptop running Windows Media Centre. MS have given up on trying to kill it. The Microsoft remote has seen better days but is still functioning.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Until Plex gets unbearable as well. They have been getting a lot shittier lately.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
There’s always Kodi! You don’t have to update your media server software.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Nah, I’ll just switch to Jellyfin.
victorz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Other server software are available of course. The concept stays the same though. Very much recommend doing this. I’m halfway there, running Plex on my desktop PC and watching on my TV and other devices at home. Very comfortable setup. But I wish I had a small computer like a Pi or something, and a NAS to hold my drives. That way my desktop PC could rest.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 months ago
Personally I was a fan of buying something like a Dell optiplex as my my NAS and Pihole but I do wish I had a better enclosure for the drives as any truly good one seems to be hundreds of dollars and mildly defeats the idea of self hosting being cheaper.
Z4rK@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They hit my threshold of shittiness some years back and I’ve been enjoying Jellyfin ever since. It’s a much better alternative for most!
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
The shark’s in the tank and they’re putting their waterskis on
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Plex is a great example of how proprietary software will inevitably become exploitative, and only purely Free Software systems can ever be trustworthy in the long term.
frokie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I still get Roku recommendations on plex content from my Apple TV. They are doing content recognition off of the hdmi input
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I use a dumb tv. Old 1080I tube tv.
frokie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Uff between ads and interlaced content?? I’d still try to find a dumb 1080p…
vox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
or just get a cheap-ass android box (like xiaomi or google)
gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Honestly, I’m just using a cheap Android TV box with stremio and smart tube. Those two apps pretty much cover everything I’d wanna watch. Those $20 Walmart ones are super easy to root/bootloader unlock too, so you can put lineageOS on it if you want